Spoiler Alert (Revelation 21-22)

We’re kicking off a new summer sermon series called Spoiler Alert: God’s Story Rules.  We are going to explore the end, or perhaps the culmination, of God’s story.  We will talk about the ways that knowing the trajectory of God’s story informs how we think and live now.  What’s the reason we do anything? The end of God’s story, the last pages of Revelation, give us some reasons.   The picture we see in Revelation is one of restoration. The leaves of the tree of life will be the healing of the nations.  What has been broken will be restored.  At the culmination of God’s story, we will experience God’s glorious presence in ways we have never known. God wants to dwell with. If we look backwards, we see God wanted to give us a physical place to be with God–the Tabernacle and the Temple. In Jesus, God came as a person. In the future, we will experience God’s presence in an even more direct and intimate way than we do in Jesus—in a way that is perhaps beyond what we can comprehend or grasp right now.